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Monday, July 11, 2016

IPS Newsletter

Latin America’s teenage girls are a crucial force for change and for
promoting sustainable development, if the region invests in their rights
and the correction of unequal opportunities, according to Luiza
Carvalho, the regional head of UN Women.
“An empowered adolescent will know her rights and ...
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Four years ago, Farzana Aktar Ruma, now 18, was almost married off
without her consent.
Her parents had settled on someone they considered a reasonably wealthy
young man with a good family background, and did not want to miss the
opportunity to wed their eldest daughter.
Farzana’s father, ...
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In plain and simple language, an Argentine video aimed at teenagers
explains how to get sexual pleasure while being careful. Its freedom
from taboos is very necessary in Latin American countries where one in
five girls becomes a mother by the time she is 19 years old.
“For good sex to happen, ...
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Voahevetse Fotetse can easily pass for a three-year-old even though he
is six and a pupil at Ankilimafaitsy Primary School in Ambovombe
district, Androy region, one of the most severely affected by the
ongoing drought in the South of Madagascar.
“Fotetse is just like many of the pupils here who, ...
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From forced sterilisation to sexual abuse, young women and men with
disabilities are much more likely to have their sexual and reproductive
health rights violated than other people.
However despite the increased risks they face, young people with
disabilities are also much less likely to get ...
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The declaration that will be presented for approval at the Third United
Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat
III) in October has again sparked conflict between the opposing
positions taken by the industrial North and the developing South.
The aim of the ...
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Patience*, a Ugandan maid, planned on taking her three-year-old son for
polio immunization during the country’s mass campaigns a year ago, until
her landlord’s wife told her a shocking myth.
“The medicine they are injecting them with means the boy when he’s an
adult won’t be able to reproduce,” ...
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Millions of children still die before reaching their fifth birthday
every year, according to the 2016 State of The World’s Children Report
released here Tuesday by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The report, which is released annually, shows that a country’s income
does not always determine ...
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Despite their contribution to social justice, civil society
organisations came under “serious attack” in 109 countries in 2015,
according to a new report published by CIVICUS Monday.
“Civil society freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly
have been under serious attack in ...
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